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'I want to take everything I've learned back home'
9 Aug 2024Cook Islands' Antony Vavia, 28, is first Pacific islander to graduate with a doctoral degree within marine sciences from Auckland University of Technology.
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NZ, Aus pour almost NZ$50m for Pacific humanitarian warehouses program
9 Aug 2024The two countries will invest a combined NZ$47.5 million, working alongside other partners such as the United States, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
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'This year was about improving finances', says Lakapi Samoa chair
9 Aug 2024Manu Samoa has pulled out of their 2024 Northern Hemisphere tour because of a financial crisis, which World Rugby said is of the union's own making.
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Guam defends missile testing, nukes, to maintain 'peace'
Governor Lou Leon Guerrero says the US territory has no choice but to defend itself amid ongoing nuclear threats to the Asia-Pacific region. Audio
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France 'decides on who enters' New Caledonia - diplomat
9 Aug 2024Véronique Roger-Lacan says it is up to Paris to decide whether a high-level mission to New Caledonia will be possible prior to or after the Forum Leaders' Summit in Tonga. Audio
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PNG govt claims vote no threat
9 Aug 2024Opposition leader Douglas Tomuriesa is eyeing a vote in September, when the parliament is due to sit. Audio
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'Our neighbourhood is important to us'
8 Aug 2024Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says: "A lot of people think that charity begins at home but in your long-term interest as a country, you neglect your neighbourhood at your peril."
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'Culture' hinders Fiji's human trafficking response
The head of the Fiji Council of Social Services says several factors have driven Fiji's human trafficking outcomes, including; a lack of understanding from the government. Audio
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PNG weightlifter Baru finishes 5th as Pasifika athletes make their mark at Paris 2024
Pacific athletes were in action at the Paris Olympic in several sports on Thursday, including weightlifting, wrestling, kayaking and more
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Hu'akavameiliku rejects foreign affairs standoff claims
"I'm heading down to the Foreign Ministers meeting on Friday in Suva to give them an update in my capacity as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs." Audio
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'It sucks': Guam's Chamorro people and their complex relationship with the US
Cultural historian and Guam museum curator Dr Michael Bevacqua says after liberation in July 1944, there was the strong desire amongst indigenous Chamorros to Americanise. Audio
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Women in business leadership make gains but disparities persist
7 Aug 2024A new report by the Asian Development Bank has found that more Pacific women are taking up leadership roles in business, but they continue to face discrimination. Audio
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Pacific resilience fund needs US$380m in 2yrs years to reach half-billion dollars goal
The Pacific Resilience Facility was endorsed by the Pacific Islands Forum leaders to make it easier for Pacific Island nations to access climate financing.
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Pacific athletes relish Paris 2024 opportunity
7 Aug 2024Pacific athletes represent some of the smallest delegations at the Olympic Games. But to be able to compete with the best in the world offers them a unique opportunity to put their nations on the map.
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Dropping the ball: Samoa's financial woes due to 'decisions taken by the union'
A World Rugby spokesperson said the financial troubles faced by Lakapi Samoa "are a direct consequence of decisions taken by the union". Audio
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NZ endorses US push to expand weapons-making defence industrial base
7 Aug 2024New Zealand has quietly signed up to help the United States in its new strategy to expand the weapons-making defence industrial base across the Indo-Pacific region.
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The story behind Bougainville's Rio Tinto suit
7 Aug 2024Investigative journalist with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Aubrey Belford, speaks to RNZ Pacific's senior journalist Don Wiseman about the lawsuit. Audio
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'Our hearts are broken': Family of helicopter pilot killed in Papua speak out
6 Aug 2024Glen Conning was the most caring and loving husband and dad, they say.
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Bougainville govt to focus on improving health infrastructure
7 Aug 2024The Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) is prioritising the improvement of healthcare facilities across the region, the secretary of health says.
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University of the South Pacific launches new research hub for climate change
The Centre for Sustainable Futures will be a place of "seamless blending of expertise, diverse knowledge, indigenous wisdom and knowledges alongside modern science", the USP says.
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Samoa facing 'significant financial challenges', withdraws from Europe tour
In a letter, dated 11 July 2024, Lakapi Samoa chair wrote to World Rugby chair, saying the union wants to "avoid embarrassment of being the first small union to go bankrupt".
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Winston Peters 'firmly committed' to Pacific as he embarks on Micronesian region visit
6 Aug 2024The Deputy Prime Minister has so far visited Cook Islands, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Niue, Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga, Nauru and Tuvalu, since getting into office.
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French Polynesia's homeboy becomes 'King of Teahupo'o'
Tahiti's, Kauli Vaast, 22, has won the Olympic gold medal in the men's shortboard finals of the Paris 2024 surfing event.
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No word from Paris on Pacific mission to New Caledonia - Tonga PM
6 Aug 2024Hu'akavameiliku says the countdown for a response from France is on with Pacific leaders set to meet in Tonga in the last week of this month.
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